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After many days of carefully creating fairy habitats, it was time for the big night!

In honor of the event, The Princess even read a special fairy book.Normally, we assemble the fair village outside but sadly this year the wind did NOT cooperate and were forced to set up inside in the dining room.

My awesome mushroom hut!

Cinco’s clay fairy huts lined a path leading to the golden castle and several small boxes painted with metallic colors were also displayed.

The castle also had many lovely embellishments including feathers and the famous golden fairy wings! A small bottle of fairy beads was also laid out for the visitors.

Additionally, my attempt at a milk jug fairy home was also included off to the side.

Fairy Forest Cafe (FFC as Cinco called it) had several tables and chairs set out in front of it and included a Fairy Forest Cafe sign (not pictured).

And, many lovely dishes of fairy food were set out as well. I was particularly fond of the mini-cinnamon rolls and tiny bread.

When we awoke in the morning, The Captain reported that both the front and back doors were flung open. NO JOKE! Whether it was the fairies or the wind who can say?

In true fairy style, they left a note, presents and of course fairy dust.

Both children were gifted magical glowing necklaces.

And, Cinco received a mini hot-wheels set (how perfect), as well as puzzle from the mischievous Puck. They also left behind a few wolves to inhabit the dog house that Cinco made.

The Princess was given a cute fairy wand and a paint your own fairy statue. I was forgotten yet again by the fairies. But then, I suppose those over 21 don’t get magical prizes.

The summer solstice tradition lives on. We ate strawberry shortcake for dinner, played with sparklers and glow sticks and the kiddos built their fairy houses again! The Princess also discovered a new book series which features lots of fairies including one that shares The Princess’ name. To top it off we watched Epic which takes place on the Summer Solstice, but doesn’t actually involve fairies.

This year Cinco decided on a baseball theme for his fairy creation. He started with a ball field complete with dugouts and even Gatorade ads on the stadium walls, LOL.

The following day he built a score board out of craft sticks. Next, we made mini baseball caps together. We made two sets of 9 caps each, enough to field two fairy teams. Cinco and I like the blue cap best because they remind us of the KC Royals.

I have left instructions on how to make your own cap at the end of the blog. Scroll down…

He made mini baseballs out of wooden balls from the craft store and created a makeshift baseball bat. Cinco wants to go so far as to make t-shirts for the fairies, but there was only so much time in the day…. Get that? The longest day…. only so much time. What a laugh.

Cinco also needed a fairy house.This year the kids wanted to go with more of a nature theme and he decided to create a cave for the fairies. He covered the entire outside of the cave with stones.
Cinco made a bed from straw and craft sticks as well.

The Princess decide on a glamorous dress shop for the fairies. We made mini dresses with wine corks as the mannequins. The Princess also added a special fashion mirror for the fairies to try on their dresses. She also added a pink scarf and some perfume bottles for the fairies. She really glammed up the dress shop and then went with more of a nature theme for the fairy house.

The house was lovingly created from an old Go-gurt box. Rocks and shells added to the nature theme. The fairies also have an outdoor picnic area complete with mushrooms for stools.

Per usual the kids did a great job and the fairies left a few magical items. The Princess received a magical necklace and Cinco got a sports inspired quidditch necklace . (If you can believe it, his necklace cost less than $2, including shipping!!!)

The fairies also have an extra special treat this year. Normally, they spread ice cream sprinkles all over their mini houses. Of course, they did that again. But they also left milk chocolate sprinkles for the kiddos, . These are sprinkles commonly eaten in Holland, and were inspired by our trip this summer to see The Dutchman. I haven’t had these since I was in grade school… and personally, I am looking forward to eating them as well.

To make your own mini baseball cap you will need:

bottle caps

pom poms

duct tape in the color of your choice

thin cardboard or cardstock

a glue gun

Start by cutting out a bill for your cap. Hot glue it to the bottle cap.Glue a medium pom-pom to the top of the bottle cap. Then carefully cover your hat in duck tape taking care not to tape down the pom-pom too much or you baseball cap will look more like a civil war officer’s hat.

It’s another day of Summer Solstice activities and fun for Cinco and The Princess. Today we finished off some fairy projects but also started working on the sun aspect of the solstice.

We bought this solar power kit (I got it for $4 new @ Goodwill– go figure) The kit was not quite as easy as they suggested it would be on the box. We had to use the glue gun to make sure all the parts stuck together, especially the Eiffel Tower–which would NEVER have stayed together without the glue gun!

Then we had a slight issue with our solar panel. One of the wires connecting the panel to the charger was loose. Luckily, I managed to re-attach it using some packing tape. This provided us the chance to talk about how the energy circuit had to be a closed loop for the machines to work properly. So, it all worked out and we even had a little extra lesson.

We got everything up and running and then decided to do an “experiment” to see how long a full charge could keep the windmill turning. Seems the answer is 10 minutes 59 seconds. Cinco was excited by this because his guess had been 12 minutes so he was pretty close. Tomorrow Cinco plans to see how long a full charge will power the waterwheel and Eiffel Tower.

Math practice was also sun themed with a worksheet from teach-nology.com. It’s an addition worksheet that has the student color in un as they do the math problems.

Work on Fairy Manner continued. We got the garden/outdoor feature settled. We have a river w/ boats and oars, a bridge (Thanks again, Disney), trees and a picket fence (mini popsicle sticks $1 @ goodwill).

We also made a wand for the fairy princess! But sadly, we did not have the time to make the bow and arrow. I guess that has to wait until tomorrow!

Even mom campers have to eat, so we went to Trader Joe’s. We didn’t let that car ride go to waste.We listened to Shakespeare for Children by Jim Weiss. It’s a children’s version of two of Shakespeare’s plays on the disk narrated by Jim Weiss. I love his CD’s and now you can you can get audio downloads of his work on Amazon, which is new and great! We listened to Midsummer Night’s Dream on the car ride. The story is a little confusing with so many changes in the love triangles.

I think reading the book with the kids and listening to another version of it will help them to figure out what is happening in the story.